Has anyone else been surprised to see so many women taking to the streets in Iran, in protest of the election so obviously stolen by what's-his-name-who's-clearly-whacked?
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media
The Women's Media Center was packed with women active in old and new media, advocacy, and culture.
Irasema Garza | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
Now, more than ever, we need a functioning social safety net -- one that helps families keep food on the table in times of crisis, while providing a toe hold to a more economically secure future.
Eve Ensler | Posted 07.20.2009 | World
UN peacekeepers in the Congo are not passively standing by and watching the massacres, they are actually supporting the perpetrators.
Melinda Katz | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, the first female Vice Presidential candidate and my greatest inspiration, also happens to be my friend and neighbor.
Patricia Ireland | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
Only one of the leaders vying to become the new NOW president is running on the promise of restoring NOW's prominence and rebuilding NOW's activism.
Stuart Whatley | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
Conditions in Afghanistan are acutely compartmentalized. Reports from one village can be bright and optimistic while another locale is rife with atrocities towards women and girls.
Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
Forcing a woman who's been victimized by rape or incest to carry a child to term demonstrates Catholicism's blatant disrespect for the plight of women.
C. Nicole Mason | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
Shortly after Obama's win, I heard someone lament that this country is going to hell in a hand basket. Well if this is hell, give me a tall glass of ice water.
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 06.20.2009 | World
In a society where about 70% of the university population is female, the election vetting process is a sad comment on the true condition of Iran's girls and women: second-class citizens.
Eve Ensler | Posted 06.18.2009 | World
What I witnessed in Congo has shattered and changed me forever. I will never be the same. None of us should ever be the same.
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 06.10.2009 | Style
Scores of women stressed beyond belief by working seven days a week to try and hold onto our businesses? Sisters, a pair of big girl panties is all any of us need!
Claire Shipman and Katty Kay | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living
It does. And we call this shift Womenomics: the emergence of a new workforce dynamic that is giving women the power to tailor their work lives to better suit their needs.
Page Gardner | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
The other side of the story is that 79 million eligible Americans did not vote. Forty-four million of these non-voters were not registered, and another four million were discouraged from voting.
Katie Buckland | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
As I turn the page of my calendar and see next Tuesday marked Equal Pay Day, I cannot possibly imagine why we are still having this debate.
Andrea Learned | Posted 05.29.2009 | Living
Rather than spend energy touting or striving toward a woman's nation, let's focus on bringing genders together.
Carol Peasley | Posted 05.22.2009 | World
Calling aid "dead" may sell books, but it does little to further the real debate. Too much is at stake for oversimplification. It's really her premise that should be dead on arrival.
C. Nicole Mason | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
What is also significant is about Obama's appointments is that more than half are women of color -- this is more than any other president in the history of the country.
Martha St Jean | Posted 05.16.2009 | World
I am advocating that freedom comes through education, not coercion. I am advocating that we too educate ourselves before we attempt to become great emancipators.
Maria Shriver | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living
For the first time in our nation's history, women now represent half of all workers and are becoming the primary breadwinners in more families than ever before. This country is now what I like to call "A Woman's Nation."
John Sauer | Posted 05.10.2009 | World
If people joined together to support water and sanitation projects they could immediately help woman shatter the most basic of glass ceilings -- access to safe drinking water and sanitation.
Anastasia Kousakis | Posted 05.08.2009 | Style
As a concept, virginity is more dangerous than not, because it puts us into these virgin or not categories, which doesn't really give us a very nuanced perspective or understanding of sexuality.
Pius Kamau | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
As armies of men all across this world aim their guns and sharp knives, having declared war on girls and women, the Western feminist movement seems to slip deeper into a strange torpor.
Jane Minogue | Posted 05.02.2009 | Style
Improved education and economic prospects for women go much further than moral denunciation to decrease prostitution.
Debora L. Spar | Posted 04.30.2009 | World
From my perch at Barnard College, I see an extraordinary generation of young women grappling with new ideas about feminism and new views of women's power and leadership.
Maria Rodale | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living